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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From Beans to Burgers, Food Is Getting More Expensive

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/from-beans-to-burgers-food-is-getting-more-expensive-11623344185

“We’re in a period of unprecedented commodity inflation,” Unilever Chief Executive Officer Alan Jope told investors Monday. He said Unilever would recover some of those costs in part by selling smaller packages of some foods at the same price as a larger size.

Higher prices on grocery-store shelves and restaurant menus are part of a broader rise in inflation. U.S. consumer prices surged 5% in May from a year ago to reach the [b]highest annual inflation rate in nearly 13 years[/b].

More expensive used cars and trucks fueled the increase, according to Labor Department data, and prices for furniture and airfare also jumped. Food prices are rising because of the higher costs for labor and transport but also ingredients including corn, soybean oil and wheat.

Supermarket executives said prices they pay for beef had gone up from 20% to 40% depending on the cut. Keith Milligan, controller of Piggly Wiggly grocery stores in Alabama and Georgia, said the company was passing much of the increase on to customers.“

I don’t understand how the pp who claims food prices aren’t higher continuously denies the fact. [/quote]

13 years ago was when we were coming out of the last recession.
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Beef, pork and chicken price increases happened because of the pandemic. And that was for multiple reasons - 1.) hoarding and 2.) meat packing plants exploit their labor and do nothing for their safety which resulted in numerous raging outbreaks of COVID meaning worker shortages.  None of that was because of "Biden" no matter how much you want to point fingers, if anything it was Trump's mishandling of the pandemic and Republicans who reward greed and back policies that exploit workers.

As for a 5% cost increase in other goods causing people hardship that goes to show that American workers desperately need wage increases.  And they deserve wage increases as wages have not kept pace with productivity, profitability and any other metric.  All of the money flows to the top and gets skimmed off resulting in greater and greater wealth disparities.  And again Republicans to blame.

I don't understand how the pp who continuously wants to blame Biden keeps continuously ignoring and denying the truth of all of those underlying factors and deny the role that Trump and Republicans had in all of it.[/quote]

We can argue all day as to the reasons for price increases; the truth of the matter is that prices are increased, families can’t afford groceries, and the Biden administration thinks it’s a win that people saved sixteen cents on a bbq and ignore the fact that that a few cents savings were wiped out by increased gas prices.

Not to mention the price of charcoal, paper plates and plastic utensils, soda, etc, for a bbq have increased as well. It was a tone deaf tweet. And people who deny that fact and the fact Americans are struggling to purchase basic groceries are blind, deaf, dumb, and uncaring.

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Better do another stimulus and checks.[/quote]

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